Animal Serenade
- Lou Reed
- Band Name: Lou Reed
- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Release Date: Mar 23, 2004
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65The two-hour-plus runtime is gratuitous; probably the idea was to present the complete show (a la Alive by Kiss), but the effect is mind-numbing, and most of the successful experiments are lost in well-mannered gray.
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70Even on a daft live album, he refuses to coast. [May 2004, p.106]
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70As ever with Reed, when it's good, it's blistering. [Apr 2004, p.104]
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60It can't shake off the usual curse of live albums: an underlying sense, in the context of Reed's studio catalogue, of inescapable superfluity. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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Serenade offers nice glimpses of Reed's laid-back side.
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As usual, his ego rages, but so, thankfully, does his guitar. [26 Mar 2004, p.72]
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The material ranges from the sublime to the good to the galling.
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80At 62, Reed apparently has indulged in the drug that rejuvenated Bob Dylan's career: enjoying himself. [Apr 2004, p.135]
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84The irony is that the closer Reed gets to his present material, the more alive it becomes. [#10, p.87]
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60Beautifully performed, but otherwise unadventurous. [#243, p.69]
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70It’s worth ploughing through the strange to get to the beautiful, disturbing, fucked-up ‘Venus In Furs’ though, worth the full five stars all by itself.
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Shake9A great artist shows his non-rock 'n roll-side and plays instead a strange but beautiful serenade...
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